Gautam Mukhopadhaya

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Gautam Mukhopadhaya has been Ambassador of India to Syria, Afghanistan, and Myanmar.[1] He has also worked in the United Nations Headquarters in New York as a Consultant on Social Development and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[2][3]

He was born on May 24, 1956, and studied at the all-boys' boarding school, The Doon School in Dehradun, followed by graduation from Delhi University in India.[4]

Career[edit]

Template:Unreferencedsect He joined the Foreign Service in 1980, and has served in various capacities in Indian Embassies in Mexico, France, Cuba, Afghanistan and Syria, the UN Mission in New York City, and the Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Defence, in India. He has also worked in the UN Headquarters in New York as a Consultant on Social Development. He re-opened the Indian Embassy in Kabul in November 2001 after the new regime took over in Afghanistan. His father B.Mukhopadhaya was a very famous doctor of his times in Bihar.

He has served in various capacities in the media and culture wings of the Ministry of External Affairs. He also coordinated the year-long ‘Festival of India’, the ‘l’annee de l’inde’ in France (1985–86). As India's representative to the Third Committee of the UN in New York (1996–1999), he dealt with issues relating to social development, human rights and advancement of women. He was also invited to join the UN Secretariat as a Consultant on social development for the preparatory process of the Copenhagen Social Summit plus Five UN General Assembly Special Session (2000) for which he wrote reports on the ‘Social impact of Globalization’. He also then spent 6 months (October 2009-March 2010) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, as a Visiting Scholar.

Mr. Mukhopadhaya's career in the Indian Foreign Service has been notable for the range of his professional experience. These include media, culture, human rights, social development, defence and security, and conventional political and diplomatic assignments.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "H.E. Mr. Gautam Mukhopadhaya". Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Gautam Mukhopadhaya". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Shri Gautam Mukhopadhaya appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  4. ↑ "'I am working on two books and they are keeping me busy'". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.

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